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A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Where Nor'easters go to die.